One of the designers who made it happen

How Cutcaster started their banner ad journey

Who are you known as?

Cutcaster

What industry do you think your business is most related to?

Art & Design

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Cutcaster is an online marketplace for high-quality, royalty-free stock photography, illustrations, and vector graphics. We connect image sellers with image buyers in an easy-to-use website focused on what’s most important: helping you find exactly what you need quickly, and within your budget. You can see the site at http://cutcaster.com

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

We just relaunched our site and need your help creating effective referral banners that can be used for both attracting buyers of stock images and contributors to our site (i.e. photographers and illustrators). These will be banners used by photographers or illustrators to add to their websites or blogs to refer traffic back to Cutcaster. They need to have a common theme, color (prefer blue) and message (see below).

Needs
Cutcaster Logo, Call to action button over the banner image that stands out and will make the user want to click through, simple clean text that stands out from the background image and makes sense with the text that you use for the benefits of the site and the "call to action" wording.

You are free to choose the layout, images used, logotype. But please try to be as creative as possible with the layout and that your message that you create uses the taglines we added to this brief and correlates with the call to action button wording. You have the freedom to play around with the design to make something that stands out, is professional but still has a sense of fun. You can use images found on the site or in this collection at http://cutcaster.com/lightbox/2033-…ollection/ with the watermarks and if we choose your design we can give you a free account with credits so you can download that image for your final design.

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I will add below to the attached files some call to action button styles that we like as well as some examples from competitors

I added a bunch of new call to action buttons below. The one i like alot is called

add this type of banner for homepage around side of the slideswhow.jpeg

and its the raised black shaded area that is on the right side of the image. i like how it is raised off the page and has the darker shade of "Join Today" i think that design is well done.